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Cambridge International AS & A Level Economics (9708)
7. The price system and the microeconomy
7.1 Utility
7.2 Indifference curves and budget lines
7.3 Efficiency and market failure
7.4 Private costs and benefits, externalities and social costs and benefits
7.4.1—Social costs
7.4.2—Social benefits
7.4.3—Positive and negative externalities
7.4.4—Externalities in consumption/production
7.4.5—Deadweight welfare loss
7.4.6—Asymmetric information and moral hazard
7.4.7—Costs/benefits in decision analysis
7.5 Types of cost, revenue and profit, short-run and long-run production
7.6 Different market structures
7.7 Growth and survival of firms
7.8 Differing objectives and policies of firms
8. Government microeconomic intervention
9. The macroeconomy
10. Government macroeconomic intervention
11. International economic issues
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7. The price system and the microeconomy

Syllabus
9708–2026–2027
Section
7
Level
A2

Exam analysis

Most tested topics

  1. Utility
  2. Indifference curves and budget lines
  3. Efficiency and market failure
  4. Private costs and benefits, externalities and social costs and benefits
  5. Types of cost, revenue and profit, short-run and long-run production
  6. Different market structures
  7. Growth and survival of firms
  8. Differing objectives and policies of firms